Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

"ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. ns-3 is free software, licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license, and is publicly available for research, development, and use.

ns-3 is intended as an eventual replacement for the popular ns-2 simulator." (ns-3 home page)

For now, we package ns-3.16 with some extra patches which will eventually be upstreamed (hopefully, at least).

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora will be more attractive to researchers, teachers and students in field of computer networks since it will be much easier to install and use ns-3.

Contingency Plan

Documentation

Release Notes

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use. ns-3 is now included in Fedora. This makes it easier for researchers, teachers and students in field of computer networks to install it and use it.